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Biography & Autobiography

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Grant Allen - Biographies of Working Men

Grant Allen was an anthropologist, scientific writer, novelist and poet, though the biographer and writer Frank Harris has said of him that «He could be described with more 'ists' than anyone else I ever saw. He was...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 51 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

612

William Elliot Griffis - Korean Fairy Tales

Everywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tell in this book the folk lore of the Korean people, and of the behavior of the...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 47 minutes

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Single author

473

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Undying One and Other Poems

“The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, writing in an 1840 issue of The Quarterly Review about the poet Caroline Norton....

NoelBadrian 5 hours 46 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, travel, embroidery, science,...

Eberle Thomas and 15 more 5 hours 44 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Poetry

434

Thomas Moore - Poetry of Thomas Moore

The Dubliner, Thomas Moore, born in 1779 was a poet, composer, musician, and writer. He is most famous for the 10 volume work «Irish Melodies» published between 1807 and 1834 with Sir John Stevenson, which consists...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 42 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

497

Children's Short Works, Vol. 016

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Carmen H and 9 more 5 hours 35 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Humorous Fiction

433

Saki - Unbearable Bassington

The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro). It also contains much of the elegant wit found in his short stories. Comus (The Unbearable) Bassington, is a charming young man about town....

NoelBadrian 5 hours 31 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Maria Edgeworth - Castle Rackrent

«One of the most inspired chronicles written in English» was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth which was first published in 1800. It is recognised as the first true...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 7 minutes

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Racketty-Packetty House and other stories

Short works

446

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Racketty-Packetty House and other stories

This is a collection of short stories and fairy tales by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of The Secret Garden and A little Princess. (Summary by Elli)

Eden Rea-Hedrick and 4 more 5 hours 6 minutes

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Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

Literary Fiction

452

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by «Q», the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. — Summary by Amy Gramour

Andrew Dougherty and 10 more 4 hours 56 minutes

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Children's Fiction

429

Jean Ingelow - Mopsa The Fairy

Jean Ingelow (1820 – 1897) was one of the more famous poets of the period, indeed many people suggested that she should succeed Alfred, Lord Tennyson as the first female Poet Laureate when he died in 1892. Mopsa the...

NoelBadrian 4 hours 30 minutes

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Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works

Epistolary Fiction

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Jane Austen - Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works

This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes «Love & Freindship» and «Lesley Castle» both told through the medium of letters written by the characters. It also contains her...

NoelBadrian 4 hours 29 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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